Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

— Alan Barth The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties (1984)

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